The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1887-08-05
THE NORTHWEST.
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Around-up Of Hastings shows that build.
ings to cost $685.. 100 are now under way. The
third city is keeping up with the procession
in One shape.
Maggie Lovelitts was arrested ct Omaha
ON charge of being an accomplice in the rob.
berry and murder Of q man who lived In .
cabin near Chadron.
Railroad men are very much dissatisfied
with the verdict Of the c%oroner's jury placing
the responsibility for the Havelock disaster
on Engineer Bowser.
Plattsmouth voted to issue city bonds to
the amount Of $4,000 for paving and another
proposition was carried to expend 10000 for
the construction of sewers.
One Of the Custer county gang of thieves,
attacked by the sherlf's posse . few weeks
ago, crawled into the brush and died. The
body was discovered last week.
Seven out Of fourteen head of cattle be.
longing to a settler in the western part Of
Cheyenne county were killed que day last
week bya single stroke Of lightning.
At a railway agents. annual convention at
Minneapolis, L. A. Clark, agent Of the Bur-
lington and Missouri at Columbus was chos-
en- president for the ensuing year.
Galway boy, mounted on . pony, was
attacked by a number Of hooting plsymates.
The animal was frightened and threw the
rider to the ground, killing him instantly.
Harry Aldrich, sburly wife beater, has been
sent to jail in Beatrice. pending trial in the
district court. The drunken loafer's ambi.
tion has been to compel his wife to work and
then rob her Of her earnings and beat and
choke her II she refused.
The election at Fairbury for bonds to the
Chicago, Kansas and Nebraska railway re.
suited in favor of bonds by nearly a unani-
nous vote. This insures the Denver extern
sion of the Rock Island BY way of Fairbury.
Construction ON the branch OF the Bur.
lington and Missouri, the Nebraska and
Cheyenne, has reached point thirty miles
west Of Grant. Superintendent OF Coustruc-
tion hazlett expects to have the rails laid to
Cheyenne early THIS fail.
DAKOTA.
Several towns north of Sioux Falls are now
claiming they will get the Illinois Central.
Some Of them will, that's sure.
Work begun on s.the Gettysburg extension
Of the Chicago and Northwestern on Monday.
A mile Of track a day will be laid.
The jury in the case Of William M. Evans,
cx.treasurer of Grant county, for embezzle.
mcnt, returned a verdict Of not guilty.
M. MCGUIRE, Of Rapid City, got $500 award
cd him by the court for Strengthening Rapid
creek, which the city had refused to pay.
A sixteen year old boy named Dibblc was
arrested at Mitchell for an indecent assault
pom a dementcd girl. He admitted his
guilt.
g. A. King, Of Wavcrly, had his barn
burned last week by, 1T is thought. a crazy
German who formerly filed on the claim upon
which King has since made dnal proof.
Officers followed the incendiary to Hamlin
county, but he escaped into Minnesota.
Ex.Gov. Pierce, who has always been very
careful about expressing himself on the sub
ject Of division, having lived at Bismarck,
said Saturday, according to q Bismarck
special: ~ am inclined to think that a
Rad1ority Of the people do want division"
The temperance people are getting In earn
est. In nearly all the counties petitions have
been presented to the county boards asking
that an election he called for q vote on local
option. This is only the first step towards
straight prohibition in Dakota. When the is.
sue is presented, as in Iowa, the people will
give prohibition a rousing majority. In most
OF the counties local option will carry this
fall. The saloons are fighting it hard, but
their incidence and blum will accomplish very
little. Dakota will be prohibition before five
years If the people have a chance to vote OH
the question.
The new depot at Avon, at the junction of
the Rock Island aud Burlington. wa struck
by lightning Sunday and burned, nothing
being saved except the agents goods.
Since Sunday Judges Kavanagh and Con.
rad, of Des Moines, have heard the testimony
III fifty divorce cases. in nearly all of which
they have rendered DEGREES in favor of the
plaintiff.
Two daughters of W. F. Ballard, of Audi.
bon. were sent to the insane asylum at Mt.
Pleasant Monday. Their father is almost
broken hearted over this great calamity tn
both daughters.
Pratt Wallace, an old resident of Waterloo.
died of paralysis after being sick 135 DAYS.
during which time he lost nearly a pound a
day, weighing 100 when attacked and only
sixty pounds the day he del.
The Central Homeopathic association met
Mt Cedar Rapids Wednesday. A homeopathic
hospital will be located at Iowa CITY with
medical control in the hands of that denart.
ment of the State university.
The old state house on Capitol Hill. Des
Moines, is vacant and deserted, but capable Of
many years Of good service for something.
The News thinks 1t ought to DO utilized for
som school or place of charity.
The wife of Stephen Palmer, at Waterloo
committed suicide by shooting herself. sbe
was sixty.fve years of age. She had been in
poor health and told q ncighbor a few davs
previous thai she feared she was going
crazy.
Des Moines has spirit manifestations. not
those induced by spiritus fermenti, but a yer
liable ghost, which, according to s~pirttualists.
ts the spirit of the grandmother of an orphan
girl. There is something rotten In Denmark
or Dcs Moines.
Hans Brookman, who mysteriously disap.
peared from Toledo October 8, 1885, and for
the supposed murder Of whom attempts have
been made to indict several parties, has re.
turned to Toledo. He had been in Kansas
and Indian territory.
MINNESOTA.
p. o. Noben, of Fergus Falls, is a cand,.
date for the receivershin of the land nA,,o n.